The Brazilian Socialist Party is likely to announce environmentalist Marina Silva as its presidential candidate next week, replacing party leader Eduardo Campos who was killed in a plane clash, three leading local newspapers reported on Saturday. The PSB, as the party is known, has agreed to rally around a Silva candidacy despite misgivings among some prominent members about her conservationist views and other issues such as economic policy, according to reports in Folha de S.Paulo, O Estado de S.Paulo and O Globo. Silva's candidacy is likely to be formally announced at a party meeting scheduled for Aug. 20, Folha said, adding that her running mate is expected to be Beto Albuquerque, a PSB congressman from the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. It's a solution that ensures continuity," the PSB's new leader, Roberto Amaral, was quoted as saying.
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